There, I finally got something done on time, just. Still, even with all the violence, we have a little comic relief... and even a bit of character development.
Oh, and what has to be the best ending scene I've ever done.
Have fun!
Worlds Apart - Act Three: Higher Power
This was not good. Not good at all. Damnit, Eve had just escaped being caught, and the Legendary that had allowed her to do so was caught. And by the one person who she wouldn't want anyone to be caught by. The crazed woman had her lash tight around Celebi's throat, practically choking him... there was also trickles of blood running down his neck, from where the whip had torn through flesh. And yet he ignored the bleeding, the stinging agony; instead staring staight at Eve, as though he was trying to tell her something with his eyes alone.
Then Jianna used her free hand to unhook something from her belt, something hidden from Eve's gaze, untill the Human threw it to the ground in front of the psychic. Eve stared, it was some sort of bracelet, made of metalic plates... yet she couldn't sense it, her psychic abilities couldn't pick it up at all. She could see it right on the ground, yet to her mind, it was invisible. Much like Jianna seemed to be, evidentely she had a spare still on her somewhere.
"Put that on, or the fairy brat here dies!" Was the order, and it was definitely an order. If the noose around Celebi's throat hadn't tightened, digging even deeper into the gashes and causing him to wince slightly, then Eve would have told the sociopathic bitch just where she could stick that bangle thing. "It'll seal your damn energy attacks, every single one." So Eve couldn't just blast her, even if she did feel like risking hitting the fairy in the process.
"Your call," Celebi's telepathy sounded out, in that clear tone that meant it was only her that could hear. "you know what will happen if you let her capture you. But you can only imagine what she'll do to me if you refuse to co-operate."
It shouldn't have been so difficult... but Eve hesitated. She really didn't want to make that decision, damning herself or another... She almost wondered what Mew would do, but shook off the thought. Mew was a selfish git, he wouldn't help. She didn't want to be like that. So she leant down and picked up the bracelet, struggling with the clatch. Then there was a slight yelp coming from the Umbreon, before another voice piped up."
"Yeesh, you sure picked the wrong hostage."
Eve and Jianna stared, Celebi having to settle for a glance out of the corner of his eye. On his feet, clothes completely intact, stood Mew in his human guise, holding Esteria by the scruff of her neck. And, what caused Jianna's eyes to widen, he held her gun in his free hand, with it leveled at her dark type's head. "Stalemate."
"Put my Pokemon down or this bastard dies!" The Human practically screeched, Eve still standing there, shocked. The Umbreon looked even worse off, trying to stuggle free, only stopping when there was a slight click from the firearm's mechinism, the trigger having been pulled slightly.
"Let Celebi go or your bastard dies," Mew replied, voice toneless and eyes guarded.
"Only when you release Esteria!"
"You first."
"Now way, you!"
"We're going to be here all day at this rate..." Mew sighed with a roll of his eyes, before shrugging slightly, the Umbreon's large ears bouncing slightly with the movement.
Then Mew pulled the gun away from the Umbreon's skull, pointing it at another target. The trigger tightened more. He wasn't! He couldn't... could he?
"No!" Eve yelled as there was that massive crash, Jianna's whip falling from her hand as the Pokemon on the other end was hit by the shot, crimson spraying out of his back... as he fell, a small silvery fairy wing seemed to hover, caught in the breeze for a moment, before it, too, crashed to earth.
"There, you don't have a hostage. And I do." Mew's voice still hadn't changed, as the gun was once again pointed at Esteria. "I win."
"You shot it..." Even Jianna seemed confused by what had happened...
"Your point?" Mew tilted his head in that kit like manner that seemed so unfitting what he had done in the last hour. "We both had hostages, neither of us were going to back down in the next minute or so. And, if you hadn't noticed, we have Shadows on the loose around here, so maybe I don't have time to waste here. So the only solution was to remove one hostage from the equation..."
"So he shot me." Eve heard the fairy's telepathic voice but... that couldn't be right. There was no way in hell! She stared down at the fallen fairy, watching as his form flickered and faded into nothingness as though it had never even been there. Even the blood vanished.
Now really confused, both her and Jianna turned to look up at Mew, who just smirked. "Celebi, master of illusions. Okay, Jianna, remove that second bangle thing of yours, put it on the floor and then I'll let you recall this thing and walk away with your life. Or you couldn't bother and I get to kill you both. I honestly don't give a crap which." And, for the first time in her life, Eve was afraid for someone who had tortured her. She wanted to stop Mew... but she couldn't bring herself to move, stuck watching as the tamer's eyes blazed before she moved, slowly reaching down to her ankle and pulling up a trouser leg, unclipping the second of those strange devices.
Mew kept a careful eye as the Human enlarged a Pokeball, just incase she tried to summon anything else, or threw it at him. But instead Jianna just did as she had been told and the red beam of light shot out, recalling the Umbreon back inside it. Now the gun was leveled at the tamer.
"Turn around, walk away. And don't ever let me see you again." Mew ordered, Jianna's eyes glinting and her jaw and fists clenched with barely controlled rage, but she turned away. She turned and walked away. Vanishing down the trail and out of sight.
Mew kept the gun ready for a few minutes, a few minutes where no one moved, even the wind fell silent and still. Then he finally lowered it to his side, relaxing and giving a small smile to himself. "Phew, that was a close one."
"You're telling me," This flicker in the air beside Eve piped up, before it revealed Celebi. "if she had tried anything, and you'd shot her... I doubt we'd have been able to handle that Esteria without attracting a lot more trouble."
"Hell hath no fury like a pissed Umbreon," Mew slipped the firearm into his pocket, which caused Eve to frown, the expression only deepening when the psychic 'kitten' looked across at her. Then she moved, stepping forwards, pulling back a hand, clenching it into a fist and cracking her brother one; right in the face. He stumbled back, clutching at the red mark upon his cheek, staring up at his attacker.
Even Celebi, who had started laughing at the shocked look upon Mew's face, had to fall silent when Eve's glare turned on him.
"Why did you kill that Ninjask!?" She wasn't asking, she demanded the answer... and Celebi gave it.
"It had its pincers right next to that second neck of yours. There was no chance of prying it free, and merely injuring it would have given it the ample motivation to kill you. Besides, it was a lowly insect... in terms of the grand scheme of fate; whoop-de-friggen-do, one less bug in the world isn't that big a deal."
Eve went to punch him too, but a green barrier formed around her, preventing her from reaching the fairy. Not that she didn't try, flinging a Shadow Ball at the shield, trying to shatter it and doing nothing bar wasting energy.
"Anyhoo, moving on from Eve's hissy fit," Mew spoke up, the barrier standing strong as Eve tried to get at him, although Celebi was tempted to let it drop and let her hit the other higher power again... "why are you here in the first place? You don't exactly like... what she is." The words caused all three psychics flinch. That was a sore subject for them all.
"I don't have to explain myself to you," Celebi replied, crossing his arms and letting his wings propell himself a few inches higher in the air, so he was slightly above Mew.
"I still have the gun, don't make me actually shoot you this time."
"I was in the area and just felt like it."
"Doesn't sound like you. There's always another reason, some ulterior motive."
"Fine!" Celebi cracked, "I saved her because her being killed would destroy you! And I couldn't let that happen..."
Both Mew and Eve stared, both wondering exactly what he meant by that. Celebi noticed, turning slightly red in the face.
"You don't..." Mew muttered, falling silent, prefering not to say it.
"If you were torn apart like that, there'd be more damage to the timeline than if your 'sister' here was kept alive. I went with the lesser of two apocalypses, that's all," Celebi turned away, frowning slightly.
"Oh thank the holy mother of me!" Mew gasped, "I thought you were trying to score with me for a moment..."
"Perish the thought," Celebi replied, still not looking back at Mew, but Eve could see the way the fairy's cheeks reddened even further.
"So why are you blushing?"
Celebi snapped around, glaring straight at her, "because the merest suggestion that I would ever consider being attracted to that-" he guestured over at Mew, "thing... is embarrassing."
"The feeling is mutual!" Mew snapped back.
"You irritating shapeshifter!"
"Arrogant floating vegetable!"
"Go choke on some kitty-litter."
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That one seemed to stop Mew in his tracks, his anger vanished and he just stood there, staring at Celebi... no, Eve noticed, that wasn't right, he was staring behind Celebi. She leant across to see, just in time to witness the bushes being torn apart by one of the weirdest creatures she had ever seen. Some freakish mix between bug and the medieval knights in story books. Covered in an armor-like carapice, a dark purple color, the great pincers open and ready to strike, and Eve didn't doubt that they were powerful enough to shatter bone.
Celebi's victorious smirk vanished as he spotted the stunned looks, turning just in time to see the shadow Scizor's blow coming. Yet he was too late to react, taking the 'punch' to his face, one with enough force to send him shooting through the air, past Mew and Eve, across the entire clearing, before hitting the base of a hefty oak tree. The bark around the impact splintered under the force, the wood titan cracking and beginning to tear free from its roots as Celebi fell forwards, onto his face. Immobile, and bleeding.
The Scizor had its target, Eve and Mew didn't exist as far as it was concerned. As long as neither of them moved, it would wait until its current prey was disabled before beginning a new hunt, with them. Mew knew that, so he didn't move at all, and Eve was too stunned to do anything other that stare. The attack had happened so quickly, so brutaly... No warning, nothing. Celebi hadn't even done anything to hurt it, yet it attacked anyway. It attacked and disabled a Legendary in one shot...
Two shots, if the oak tree finally giving way was to be counted, the great wooden behemoth falling forwards with a sickening tearing sound. Celebi didn't move from where he lay, even as the shadow of it falling engulfed him, even as the great oak came falling down. Even as it hit the earth, Mew having to take a step back to avoid the upper part of the tree, while the bug just stood there, foliage and hefty branches crashing against armor, without flinching.
And, with it's target out of the way, it was free to go after another. Following the stronger psychic aura; the focused, yet blank, eyes slowly moved untill they were locked on the chosen target. Eve squeaked slightly, it was staring straight at her. Mew's Human guise had hidden his power, so she had been left vunerable, and now it was too late... the target was chosen, it wouldn't stop until the prey was destroyed.
Didn't stop Mew vaulting over the tree, pulling back a fist and slamming it straight into the Scizor's face. It crashed to the floor, the unexpected blow catching it off guard, while Mew winced, clenching and unclenching his fist, which Eve noted was bleeding.
"Forgot to reinforce it with a barrier." Mew shook his wounded hand slightly, the bones cracking back into place, "Eve, get back." He didn't even look at her, watching the fallen bug, it wasn't moving, yet Mew was still tense, still ready.
And yet he still visibly jumped when the thing sat up. His uninjured hand shot for the pistol in his pocket, Eve moving to stop him even as he pulled it free. She stopped, having to turn her eyes away and cover her ears against the repeated gunshots as Mew unloaded the entire thing at the Scizor. She turned back to snap at him for killing, before stopping cold.
Still sitting there, still unharmed, the Scizor's armor hadn't even been dented by the bullets. Mew, still holding onto the now-empty gun, stood in silence for a few seconds before he spoke. Three words, that's all he said, three words that seemed to freeze the psychic clone. The words were empty, void of all emotion, he sounded so much like Mewtwo, that it took a few seconds for her to really process what he'd said.
"Eve, please, run."
That was when the Scizor got to its feet, its wings shooting wide. Eve wanted to scream at the sight of the thing, standing there, purple and black, about to pummel her brother into the dirt... and knowing she couldn't do anything to stop it. She couldn't do anything bar whimper as the thing shot forward, a pincer grabbing a hold of Mew's wrist, squeezing tight enough that he was forced to drop the gun, even as bones started to crack. Mew tried not to cry out, not to make things worse, but he couldn't hold back a little cry of pain as blood started to run down his arm, as he fell to his knees, the bug not stopping it's relentless crushing of the limb, even as its free pincer was pulled back.
Mew was in too much pain to curse, to make a witty remark, anything at all, before the Shadow's metal 'fist' struck him in the forehead with enough force to send him crashing to the floor. His tranformation reversed upon the hit, his much smaller paw managing to escape the Scizor's pincer. But it was small comfort, considering the blinding agony coming from his skull. He could feel more of that precious blood running down his face, staining pink fur crimson, before the pain caused him to see white, then black.
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Eve couldn't stop herself from crying as Mew crumpled to the floor. She couldn't believe that such a thing was possible... it beat Mew, it beat Celebi... and it was going to kill them, and then it would come after her. And it would never stop.
"No." She said, even as the bug raised a steel foot over the head of the fallen kitten, it's intent painfully obvious. It was a monster, nothing more than that. Pure evil. And she wouldn't let that... that thing just get away with it.
The bug stopped, it's foot inches above crushing Mew's battered skull, as a psychic pulse blasted through the air, slamming into its chest plate and knocking it back a step. Ignoring the harmless, fallen target, it instead turned to the new threat. Facing it down, eyes glowing a vibrant purple, even as another psychic pulse went rocketing through the air, Eve growled to herself.
Enough was enough. That thing was going to pay.